Question: Do you like working in different places?

Ken Gibbs answered on 9 Mar 2012:

Yes, definitely yes ! It is far better than ordinary tourism because you work with the local people and get to know something about them. When you show just a little interest in them, they tend to want to tell you more and more about themselves. You get to see how they live, like when I was invited to share lunch – camel stew, it was – with a teacher in his yurt in northern Turkmenistan. Or like when a Pakistani colleague took me to see carpets being woven in a desert community in Baluchestan; or when Bangladeshi research doctors invited me to work with them on a cholera project. A visit to the bazaar in Tehran (Iran) was unforgettable probably because I had already learned enough Pharsi to be able to bargain with the carpet dealers. In 1988, I went into Afghanistan with the Mujahedeen while the Russians were still waging war in that country, and found such courtesy from people who had absolutely nothing, that I became embarrassed at how we tend to complain about just the smallest thing. On my profile is a photo of a lady South African doctor with whom I worked for some weeks in Mpumalanga, and she taught me a lot about the bush which I never knew. I could go on and on, but the answer to your question is “Yes, yes, yes !!!”